Archive for February 2011

As a long-time viewer of the BBC edition of Who Do You Think You Are?, which has broadcast sixty episodes over seven seasons so far1, I recognized tonight’s episode featuring Kim Cattrall as an edited version of a BBC episode from 2009 (Series 6). As fans of PBS may be aware, hour-long BBC originals are […]

Have you ever had a problem visualizing how a direct or collateral relation fits in to a chart? Many genealogical programs offer ways to show this with direct lines, but a rare few do so with collateral family. Even fewer take an English description and attempt to chart it out graphically. Enter Wolfram’s Mathematica (also […]

This past holiday season, Microsoft aired a warning about the future of family photographs by trying to convince people to use editing software to lie. A family fidgeted on a couch, annoyingly looking to the side, looking down while texting, sticking an action figure in an ear, “Dad” getting up to remove said action figure. […]

From Genea-Musings comes a bit of a catch-up Saturday Night Genealogy Fun prompt: 1) What day of the week were you born? Tell us how you found out. 2) What has happened in recorded history on your birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events. 3) What famous […]

I’m posting two “Open Thread Thursdays” topics this time to catch up a bit. The truth is, this one is essentially an edited repost. GeneaBloggers‘ prompt: Over the next few years – with the sesquicentennial of the United States Civil War – there will be more of a focus on ancestors who fought in the […]